A small to-do has been made recently over announced plans to build a "Counter Clinton Library" to be located in Little Rock somewhere near the actual and under-construction Clinton presidential library.

A "word from the founders" on the Web site of the "counter library" describes what the project is about in boldface- and italic-laden type - that it will be "devoted to setting the record straight about the Clintons' White House years - and about Hillary's certain campaign to become the next President of the United States."

As things stand now, the "library" is somewhere between a joke and a rant. Despite lots of plugs on conservative radio talk shows and Web sites, no site has been selected and no there's no official IRS approval for the tax deductibility it promises for donations. And an article on another Web site by one of the founders suggests he's having trouble convincing people he's serious about this.

There's also scanty information about the people behind it. Despite claims that "regular" and "concerned Americans" are involved, only two people are on record as actively involved with it - a former New York congressman and a Houston businessman.

Perhaps one of the requirements of getting that IRS tax deduction, especially given its expressed political purpose of serving as "the headquarters of the Stop Hillary Now campaign," will require this planned facility to be registered as a political organization and make its donors public.

Lots of silly claims are made by these folks - including one that "no President of the United States has used his library to change his legacy" - but the silliest is that the "counter library" will tell the "real truth" about the Clintons.

The Web site gives us an example of what we can expect. One of the exhibits at the proposed library will be the "exit room," which will purportedly depict an "exact recreation of the White House as the Clintons left it - trashed, damaged and defiled. ... We will recreate this to show - in the most vivid manner possible - just how much damage the Clintons did to 'the people's house.'" In support of this, it has obtained "the explosive 76-page White House staff report on what the Clintons really did to the White House as they left."

Given that tone, it's doubtful that any mention will be made of the fact that a General Accounting Office investigation, from which that 76-page White House staff report is taken, could not find any evidence that "the Clintons" left the White House in any worse condition than the first Bush administration left the White House for Clinton, and that a review by the General Services Administration determined that "the condition of the real property was consistent with what we would expect to encounter when tenants vacate office space after an extended occupancy."

That GAO report also contains 49 pages of rebuttal to the White House's claims, which makes it clear that the Bush folks were trying to paint the condition the Clinton staff left the White House in the worst possible light. One entry asks that the GAO change one heading on "trash" left in offices as "trashing of offices," despite the fact that most observations under that heading detailed only trash left behind, not any intentional vandalism. Don't expect to hear anything about that, either.

A commitment to "the truth" means telling the whole story. This "counter library," though, is looking like yet more slanted anti-Clinton spin told and financed by the usual suspects.